DANCE MASTER CLASSES and CHOREOGRAPHY

Vladislav Soldatenko, Artistic Director and Ballet Master of the Dance Department of the Ukrainian National Academy of Dance taught a ballet

master class to the afternoon dancers on December 7th. Mr. Soldatenko completed graduate Master classes at the Vaganova Academy in St.

Petersburg and performed as a soloist with Kiev National Theater of

Opera and Ballet and Kiev Theater of Classical Ballet.

Wanda Ebright, Associate Professor of Dance at Johnson C. Smith

University, visited the Fine Arts Center and taught modern dance

master classes to both morning and afternoon dancers. Ms. Ebright

who received her MFA from Florida State University, is also the

director of her own dance company, The Wanda Project.

On December 8th Dr. Stephanie Milling, Assistant Professor at

Winthrop University, taught master classes to both dance classes

at the Fine Arts Center. She will set a dance on the afternoon

dancers during February, which she originally choreographed

for dancers at Winthrop University. Dr. Milling earned her Ph.D.

in Dance from Texas Women’s University.

The second week in February, Andrew Kuharsky choreographed

a new dance work for the morning dancers, which is titled

“Comings and Goings”. Mr. Kuharsky graduated from the

esteemed National Ballet School in Canada, was an apprentice

with the Joffrey Ballet in New York, a principal dancer with

The Atlanta Ballet, and a soloist with Les Grands Ballets

Canadiens in Montreal.

Marcy Yonkey, Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Columbia College,

will teach master classes to both dance classes on March 12th.

Ms. Yonkey received her MFA in Dance from Texas Women’s

University where she was the recipient of the 2008 Excellence

in Teaching Award. She currently performs with The Power

Company in Columbia, SC as well as teaching and

choreographing at Columbia College.

DANCE FIELD TRIP to LEAGUE ACADEMY

On January 27th the afternoon dancers traveled to League Academy

(thank you to Dirk Holleman for driving the bus for us) to dance

with the advanced 8th grade class. The dancers shared and discussed

their choreography with each other. Several of the Fine Arts Center

dancers had taken dance at League Academy with Lynne McCain

Sargent, so it was a great visit.

DANCE CLASS LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION

The afternoon dancers performed their class demonstration, which

included solos created by Dance III and Dance IV dancers (dancers

who are in their third and fourth year at the Fine Arts Center). The

lecture-demonstration for the morning dancers had to be rescheduled

due to the weather and so was performed on February 3rd. The

dancers showed what they do in class as well as their own

compositional dance “studies”.

SATURDAY DANCE FESTIVALS at the FINE ARTS CENTER

The idea of a Saturday Dance Festival was formed and implemented

by a former ARMES and FAC dance graduate, Lauren Miller (2009),

during her senior year last year. The event proved to be so successful

that the afternoon dancers helped organize and run three Saturdays

of dance this year. The intent of the all day workshops is to offer

dancers the opportunity to take class with other dancers in the

community who have a similar passion and interest in dance. Classes

included modern dance technique, improvisation, repertory,

Japanese dance, ballet and jazz.

DANCE ALUMNI NEWS

Fulton Burns (FAC Dance 1988) has been awarded two grants

from the University of South Alabama where he is an assistant

professor. They are the Summer 2010 Arts and Sciences

Professional Summer Development Award and the Spring 2010

Support & Development Award.

Kevin Boseman (FAC Dance 1990) is performing with the

National Tour of “The Color Purple.”